Science & Islam: A History

History's least-known yet most fertile period in science was the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400. Al-Khwarizmi developed algebra in 9th-century Baghdad; and ibn-Sina?s textbook, Canon of Medicine was studied in Europe?s universities until the 1600s. The story of such scientists is woven into a journey through the Islamic empires of the middle ages that enabled this revolution, and its contribution to science in Western culture.